publishes several books this summer
Yale faculty member Benjamin Harshav is the first scholar to win the prestigious Jerusalem Prize for Poetry and the Study of Poetry, which he was awarded this summer.
The prize, which honors the noted Hebrew poet Uri-Zvi Grinberg, is given once every two years by a committee of scholars and the City of Jerusalem.
Harshav, professor of comparative literature and the Jacob & Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, is a noted scholar of Jewish literature and culture and an award-winning translator of Yiddish and Hebrew works. He founded an institute for the study of poetics and semiotics at Tel-Aviv University in the 1960s and founded and edited the international journals Poetics and Theory of Literature and Poetics Today. Since coming to Yale in 1987, he has published several books in English on Jewish literature and culture and translated (with his wife Barbara Harshav) a collection of poems by Yehuda Amichai and a volume of American Yiddish poetry.
This summer, two of five volumes of Harshav's collected studies in theory of literature and culture were published in Hebrew: "Fields and Frames: Essays on Theory of Literature and Meaning" and "The Art of Poetry," in which he expounds his theory of "constructive poetics." The books were published by the Porter Institute of Poetics and Semiotics, Tel-Aviv University and Carmel Publishers in Jerusalem.
In addition, his bilingual (English and Hebrew) book on an abstract painter, titled "Moshe Kupferman, The Rift in Time. Essay by Benjamin Harshav: Time in the Art of Space," was recently published in Tel-Aviv. His comprehensive anthology "Manifestoes of Modernism: Symbolism, Free Verse, Futurism, Imazhinism, Constructivism, Expressionism, Dada, Imagism, Introspectivism, Proletarian Art, Revolution and Art, Modernism in Eretz-Israel" is scheduled to appear in the fall. Harshav selected, translated and edited the works in the anthology.
The Jerusalem Prize is among several honors that Harshav has received for his scholarship in and translations of Jewish literature and poetry.
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